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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:39:33PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 24-08-2011 09:22:00 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:35:29AM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > > What do you mean by reordering? From what I see from generating |
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> > > ChangeLog files from both CVS as well as SVN (prefix-tree overlay), |
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> > > there is no difference in time, and hardly in message. Just things like |
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> > > "[this is a placeholder, please ignore]" show up. |
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> > CVS and SVN have global order, hence their ability to create changelogs |
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> > that are always growing in a single direction. Git has no global order |
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> > when merges are involved. If I merge in a commit made months ago, where |
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> > is the correct place for it in the generated changelog? When the |
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> > generated changelog is generated from scratch, where does it go? Does it |
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> > stay in the same place after more merges? |
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> I see, thank you. Does it actually matter if the order changes? Given |
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> our current ChangeLog format we can't show the graph that's behind it. |
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> All that counts for the user, is that the changes are documented. |
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Specifically, the order only matters for generating the ChangeLog from |
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scratch, because users will probably expect to be reading it linearly, |
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not out-of-order. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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